Locket-purse sash-pin.



LOGKET PURSE SASH PIN. APPLICATION IILED B30113, 1910.

999,692. PatentedAug. 1,1911.

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LOCKET-PURSE SASH-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1911.

Application filed December 13, 1910. Serial No. 597,111.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS D. BERGERON, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Providence, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLocket-Purse Sash-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles of combined ornament and utility, andhas particular reference to ornamental pins formed and constructed tocarry coins.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which can be readily changed in its use so as to be worn withany sash.

Another object is to provide a combined pin and coin receptacleconstructed to have the greatest possible capacity for the coins.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, as will be. more fully described andparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1is a front elevation if a pinconstructed in accordance with my invention, the cover or lid of thecoin cup or receptacle being open. Fig. 2represents a section on line 22of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a detail perspective view of the coin cup orreceptacle.

Similar reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in allof the views.

The main plate 5 of the pin may have any configuration. It is usuallymore or less ornamented. Preferably it is curved as indicated in Fig. 2,but I do not limit myself to a curved main plate. The plate 5 isprovided with a central opening around which the metal is bent outwardlyto form an inclined or beveled margin 6. lVithin the opening is secureda cup-shaped member comprising a circular wall 7 and a bottom 8 whichmay be integral with the circular wall. A fixed top plate 9 forms, withthe cup, a coin receptacle. Said top plate is cut away as at 10 to forma recess to enable a finger of the user to remove a coin by frictionalengagement therewith. Of course the side of the circular wall is cutaway or slotted sufficiently to enable the coin to be inserted orremoved. Such slot is indicated at 11 in Fig. 3, and it is of courselocated close to the top plate 9.

Within the cup is a disk shaped presser plate 12 between which and thebottom of the cup is a spring 13 to act upon the presser plate to holdsuch coin or coins as may be within the receptacle against the undersurface of the top plate 9. A concavo-conveX support 14 for the back ofthe cup is suitably secured in place as by brazing or soldering itsmargin to the back of the plate 5. The member 14. also provides a betterfinished appearance at the back of the device. A cover 15, the outersurface of which may be suitably ornamented, is hinged at 16 to thefront of the main plate or its beveled circular portion, and is providedwith a suitable catch pin 17 adapted to co-act with a keeper 18 to holdthe cover closed. A pin 19 is pivoted at 20 to the back of the mainplate, the latter having a catch member 21.to retain the pin point.

It will readily be understood that owing to the structure of the coinreceptacle in the manner described, and having a pin 19, the device maybe readily used in connection with any sash. Then it is in placeconnecting the ends of a sash, the wearer may read;

ily open the cover 15 and slide out the uppermost coin to pay a car-fareor such other monetary obligation as the contents of the receptacle willwarrant. In practice I have found it perfectly feasibly to place fivesil-l ver quarters within the receptacle without unduly thickening thedevice for use as a sash pin. This is because of the fact that thereceptacle extends both sides of the plane of the plate 5. And no coincan slip laterally behind the central opening of the plate 5 because ofthe circular wall 7. The circular wall 7 is an essential feature of thisdevice since otherwise, as the pin is naturally worn in a position sothat the coins are supported in a substantially vertical plane, saidcoins would be almost certain to slip downwardly behind the inclined orbeveled margin 6 of the plate 5. The bottom 8, however, is not soessential, since the spring might bear directly against the innersurface of the member 14:. I do not limit myself to the use of themember 14 if the bottom 8 of the cup is employed, because the cupcomprising the parts 7 and 8 might be secured firmly enough in positionwithout being backed up by the support 1 1.

The cover 15 is preferably so formed as to leave a suflicient spacebetween it and the plate 9, when the cover is closed, to permit theinner surface of the cover to carry a picture.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described, a main plate having a centralreceptacle provided with a lateral opening, a hinged cover for saidreceptacle the hinge of said cover being located. to permit it to swingopen in a direction opposite to the direction in which the receptacleopening faces, and a pin and catch ineinber carried by said main plate,the pin being substantially parallel With the axis of the cover hinge.

2. In a device of the character described, a curved main plate having acentral receptacle provided with a lateral opening, a hinged cover forsaid receptacle, the hinge of said cover being located to permit it toswing open in a direction opposite to the direction in which thereceptacle opening faces, the portion of the main plate Which isadjacent the receptacle being in a plane intermediate the bottom andcover of the receptacle, and a pin and catch member carried by said mainplate, the pin being substantially parallel with the axis of the coverhinge.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LOUIS D. BERGERON.

Witnesses:

HOWARD E. BARLoW, E. I. OGDEN.

Copies 01' this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

